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He couldn't cheat it for ever.
[s]I'm calling shenanigans until confirmed by a reputable source.
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Edit: There is a statement on Motörhead's official FB page. Bit of an odd one, tho.
There is no easy way to say this…our mighty, noble friend Lemmy passed away today after a short battle with an extremely aggressive cancer. He had learnt of the disease on December 26th, and was at home, sitting in front of his favorite video game from The Rainbow which had recently made it’s way down the street, with his family.We cannot begin to express our shock and sadness, there aren’t words.
We will say more in the coming days, but for now, please…play Motörhead loud, play Hawkwind loud, play Lemmy’s music LOUD. Have a drink or few.
Share stories.
Celebrate the LIFE this lovely, wonderful man celebrated so vibrantly himself.
HE WOULD WANT EXACTLY THAT.
Ian ‘Lemmy’ Kilmister
1945 -2015Born to lose, lived to win.
Yeah me too ...
Holy cow. That's a shame. One of music's more interesting characters.
A true metalhead but liked his Nazi memorbelia a bit too much
'You only get a single chance, the rules are very plain....'
😐
Legend.
Yeah me too ...
Bugg3r, was hoping it was wrong ! Sad day, RIP
Oh, bloody hell! I was beginning to think Lemmy was indestructible. Certainly lived the rock'n'roll life!
RIP Lemmy, gone, but will never be forgotten.
Legend is a word often thrown around, but for him, its an understatement.
\m/
Just a couple of days after his birthday, and only a short time after the death of Phil Taylor
Bah!
Met the man once at a party in Notting Hill back in 1980.
Introduced our bass player to him, Lemmy was his hero. Had a short chat. Seemed like a nice guy, the person not the persona.
70 years and living the life you want to the hilt. Third top story on the national news.
Not bad, Ian. Not bad at all.
Used to see him at the Marquee, he was either at the bar or feeding the slotty, we would always say hello in a drunken way and he always tolerated us.
RIP Lemmy
🙁
Certainly lived a life though
\m/ 🙁 \m/
\m/
Born to raise hell, Born to raise hell
We know how to do it and we do it real well
Just a few weeks after Phil Taylor too. RIP
🙁
Sad loss, as previously said he was a real character, not one you could forget. A friend of mine met him whilst they were both waiting for a delayed flight, had a coffee with him, said he was a really nice guy.
RIP Lemmy.
Who will lead the cockroaches come the nuclear apocalypse now ?
RIP
Rock God.
A good age for a hell-raiser, still raising hell. Music from my formative years.
Wherever he's gone it won't be quiet.
"Everything louder than everything else"
Sad day - a man who lived life on his own terms.
In interviews he always came across as pretty thoughtful and a nice guy.
Great live - saw them 4 times, always awesome
🙁
Ace of Spades was the first album I ever bought. And the opening have that track still sounds as brilliant as ever, as you crank the volume up
RIP you mad bastard!
Lemmy 🙁
Who will lead the cockroaches come the nuclear apocalypse now ?
Kinda always thought that would be Status Quo..
Stand down Lemmy.
The worlds a quieter place with you in it.
Sadly.
First gig I went to. Lemmys gonna be missed.
Right, I'm off to blow the speakers on the stereo.
Dammit, I thought we has essentially pickled and therefore immortal.
Time to rattle the windows with Ace Of Spades and Bomber then!
\m/ 🙁 \m/
+1
A very sad day, grew up listening to Motörhead.
Certainly packed a lot more into his life than most could dream of.
One of the originals.
Met, worked and shared a few drinks with him on more than one occasion.
Lemmy was a true rock n' roll gentleman and I for one will really miss him. A big hole has been left in the world. he will live on in my mind though.
The only way to feel the noise is when it's good and loud.
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RIP 😥
Riff in peace 8)
Stole this straight from the Guardian comments.
What's all this RIP nonsense?
The man lived and played so hard it's a testimony to sheer bloody mindedness that he lived this long.
He was seventy! Think about the seventy year olds you know, now picture Lemmy, smashing the f*** out of a tune in a stage in front of his fans.
There is nothing to mourn; he lived his life exactly as he wished. He died exactly as he wished.
He compromised for no one.
How many people can honestly say that?
Celebrate a man who lived so hard that even Death itself felt the need to knock politely a couple of days before taking him, but knew enough not to drag it out.
Here's to you Lemmy; in a world of manufactured plastic pop stars you were forged out of molten metal.
Go give God a headache.
There will be quite a bit of Motorhead and Hawkwind played today.
Sounds like quite a few windows will be rattling this evening. I'll be doing my bit.
Marc Maron interviewed him recently and I think he mentioned that he seemed quite frail, not surprising really, he certainly looked it in more recent pics. Rest in peace doesn't seem right for Lemmy. He'll certainly be shaking things up wherever he is now.
I'd assumed that RIP stood for something like Rock Insanely Powerfully in this case - the words 'rest' and 'peace' are clearly inappropriate!
A true exponent of "It's better to burn out, than to fade away"
A legend.
Go give God a headache.
yeah like lemmys going to heaven ! 🙄 😆
50 years on the road, massive drug consumption, smoked like a chimney, drank a bottle of Jack Daniels a day and banged more groupies than you can shake a stick at.
A good innings.
I'm going to the pub tonight, will have a double JD and coke and put Overkill on the jukebox.
50 years on the road, massive drug consumption, smoked like a chimney, drank a bottle of Jack Daniels a day and banged more groupies than you can shake a stick at.
In the documentary I saw when he was in his flat in Hollywood, he seemed quite lonely. He was very choosy about his drugs as well, loathed heroin with a passion.
I always remember him once saying that if he ever saw someone shooting up he'd 'snap the needle off in their arm'.loathed heroin with a passion.
And I can quite believe he would.
In the documentary I saw when he was in his flat in Hollywood, he seemed quite lonely. He was very choosy about his drugs as well, loathed heroin with a passion.
I think that the two were very much connected 🙁
Yes he mentioned a girlfriend that died of an overdose.
I have only known two of his songs. 😯
One was the song he sang with Hawkwind (crikey just found out he was the singer from the BBC news 5 mins ago) ... Then the other song that was sang/shouted very loudly I don't even know the name of the song.
He must have had the constitution of a concrete elephant to make it to 70 on his regime. Most people on that diet would have been dead by 50. Well played.
Lemmy on the fledgling Motörhead:
“They’ll be the dirtiest rock and roll band in the world. If we moved in next door your lawn would die.”
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Good documentary on Youtube: Motörhead: Live Fast Die Old
(NSFW so not putting it on here)
wallop - Member
Yes, that's the song "ace of spades".
No more songs from him beyond that for me.
😆
Lemmy doing what he does best
You know he was a cultural icon when Radio 4 just did a 10 minute slot on him during the lunchtime news 🙂
Rock and Roll has a pair of empty shoes.....I don`t think anybody will be stepping into them for quite a while yet....
Spent the last seven hours listening to [b]Motorhead[/b] back catalogue, then we`ll move on to solo project stuff and assorted HAWKWIND. Its a shame that it takes situations like these to make you do stuff like this.
Has anybody asked Larry Wallis for a comment yet, seems to be the only one that hasn`t been interviewed.
tp26 - what's the solo stuff ?
I'm planning on giving Doremi, Hall of the Mountain Grill, Overkill and Bomber a binge listen. But at the moment I can't bring my self to it.
centralscruntinizer - you may need to add Space Ritual to the list, Hawkwind's and Lemmy's finest performance. Just getting to the end of it now, Warrior on the edge of time next I think then I'll move onto Motorhead.
🙂 Sounds like you've got my record collection. Those albums will get a spin as well mate.
I remember seeing him at UEA several years ago. Awesome show and an amazing performance. Keep rocking.
Whorehouse Blues is one of the best.
Loved his gigs. No fluff. Just rock
"Hi, we're Motorhead. We play rock and roll"
Then he'd melt your ears.
Legend. Love that guardian quote Coyote. Sums it up for me.
I'd like to see the song 1916 from the 1991 album 1916 get some more airtime next year as part of the WW1 commemorations. It really makes you think...
16 years old when I went to the war,
To fight for a land fit for heroes,
God on my side, and a gun in my hand,
Chasing my days down to zero,
And I marched and I fought and I bled
And I died & I never did get any older,
But I knew at the time, That a year in the line,
Was a long enough life for a soldier,
We all volunteered,
And we wrote down our names,
And we added two years to our ages,
Eager for life and ahead of the game,
Ready for history's pages,
And we brawled and we fought
And we whored 'til we stood,
Ten thousand shoulder to shoulder,
A thirst for the Hun,
We were food for the gun, and that's
What you are when you're soldiers,
I heard my friend cry,
And he sank to his knees, coughing blood
As he screamed for his mother
And I fell by his side,
And that's how we died,
Clinging like kids to each other,
And I lay in the mud
And the guts and the blood,
And I wept as his body grew colder,
And I called for my mother
And she never came,
Though it wasn't my fault
And I wasn't to blame,
The day not half over
And ten thousand slain, and now
There's nobody remembers our names
And that's how it is for a soldier.
Brooess, even Jeremy Vine played 3 tracks this lunchtime! I think he was secretly a fan
Very sad news.
I too met him once, about 10 or so years ago in a lap dance club in LA. I asked him for his autograph as I'd seen Motörhead live quite a few times and he also covered a song my uncle wrote for Johnny Kidd and the Pirates, with Girlschool -please don't touch.
He was utterly gracious and invited me to sit and chat while the two most gorgeous hunnies continued to drape themselves over and around him! Quite a surreal 15 minutes or so, probably helped that we were probably on similar chemical assistance at the time.
Just listening to 1916 on planet rock and appear to have some dust in my eyes 😥
Diagnosed a couple of days before....did he 'take control of the situation' I wonder?
Looking at that line-up, Lemmy, Philthy Phil and Fast Eddie..... gotta be one of the best in rock history, damn they were good together
As someone has already said, Riff in Peace up there fella
Yep. The classic line up, at their peak, 1979 to 1981ish, ruled.
Lemmy, a true legend.
My first ever gig was at the age of 15 to see Motorhead headlining the Heavy Metal Brain Damage Party at Bingley Hall, Stafford in 1980 (travelled up from that London in coaches) and loved them ever since.
My elder cousin was a bit of a rock chick and had a date with the man a few years later. Unsurprisingly he was only interested in one thing but that never put me off him, in fact as a teenager that elevated him in my eyes.
When the likes of Dave Grohl idolise him then you know he's something special.
we're Motorhead. We play rock and roll
I always loved the fact that he was adamant that it was rock and roll when everyone told him he was playing heave metal.
Tunes like 'keep us on the road' showed just how musically accomplished and structured their stuff really was:
Such a sound!
The only thing played on my vans stereo today was Motorhead. Not sure what my customers thought of it but in the spirit of the great man; '***k em'.
Sweeping down a familiar valley road in the dark with the headlights on full and Bomber blaring out at speaker smashing volume was epic at the end of a long day but also slightly sad knowing that Lemmy will grind out those riffs no more.
For anyone that doesn't know, Planet Rock are playing an interview with him ATM, followed by Ace Of Spades in full...
And for pure Rock and Roll...
Bad day for the rhythm section yesterday with John Bradbury from the Specials going as well 🙁
Biffy opened their set on hogmanay with ace of spaces, nice touch I thought. But it's no No Voices In The Sky.
Nice tribute on the Stranglers site from JJ Burnell [url= http://www.thestranglers.net/ ]here[/url].
I remember seeing him interviewed on the Girlie Show (90s late night Channel 4) and telling Sara Cox and the audience "I may be f***ing old but you missed some great parties".